Algorithm Team Lead

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Tel Aviv, ISR
Hybrid
Senior level
AdTech • Big Data • Digital Media • Marketing Tech
Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social.
The Role
Lead a team optimizing and designing bidding strategies for real-time auctions, applying control theory and optimization, delivering production-grade algorithms, partnering with engineering to deploy scalable systems, and mentoring algorithm engineers to improve advertiser ROI.
Summary Generated by Built In

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!  

As a Team Leader on the Bidding Strategies Algo team in our TLV Office, you'll play a vital role in shaping how Advertisers bid in real-time auctions at massive scale. You will lead the optimization of our existing bidding strategies and the design of new ones, formulating bidding problems mathematically, applying control-theoretic methods, and analyzing the complex dynamics of a closed-loop. By guiding team members and partnering closely with engineering, you'll turn theoretical insights into robust production solutions. Your work will directly influence advertiser ROI efficiency across thousands of advertisers.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

  • Advanced academic training (MSc/PhD) with strong grounding in applied mathematics, optimization, control theory, or a related quantitative field
  • Strong Algorithmic Problem-Solving Experience (6+ years), and 2+ years of Managerial or Technical Leadership Experience
  • Production-Grade Algorithm Engineering Experience
  • Experience Driving Measurable Business Impact Through Algorithmic Improvements
  • Experience interfacing effectively with engineering teams to deliver complex algorithms into production
  • Experience leveraging agent-based coding tools to accelerate development, experimentation, and code quality

Bonus points if you have:

  • Experience with Real-Time Bidding, Auction Theory

How you'll make an impact:

  • Lead the optimization of Taboola's existing bidding strategies
  • Design and deliver new bidding strategies end-to-end into production
  • Drive deep analysis of complex dynamics and closed-loop feedback effects
  • Partner closely with engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable systems
  • Lead and develop algorithm engineers
  • Play a part of Taboola's tech organization's growth in the agentic development era

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says:
"You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture."

Well-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits and well-being programs tailored to the region, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks.

Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office, with an option to come in more often if desired.

Work with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Condé Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, and Expedia.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Learn more about #TaboolaLife on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, & the Taboola Life Blog.

About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

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Skills Required

  • Advanced academic training (MSc/PhD) in applied mathematics, optimization, control theory, or related quantitative field
  • Strong algorithmic problem-solving experience (6+ years)
  • 2+ years of managerial or technical leadership experience
  • Production-grade algorithm engineering experience
  • Experience driving measurable business impact through algorithmic improvements
  • Experience interfacing with engineering teams to deliver complex algorithms into production
  • Experience leveraging agent-based coding tools to accelerate development and experimentation
  • Experience with Real-Time Bidding and Auction Theory

What the Team is Saying

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Taboola Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Parental & Family Support Primary caregivers are offered up to 26 weeks of paid leave, with secondary‑caregiver leave scaling by tenure and a phased return‑to‑work option at full pay. Additional supports such as adoption assistance, childcare benefits, and mother’s rooms reinforce a family‑friendly package.
  • Healthcare Strength Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is highlighted across regions, with mental‑health support and wellness programs included. U.S. materials point to strong core coverage, while carriers are specified by country (e.g., Cigna in the U.S., Vitality in the UK, AXA in France).
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth U.S. offices feature an unlimited PTO policy alongside paid sick days and holidays, and other regions list substantial annual leave allowances. Built‑out time‑away programs are consistently called out, supporting work‑life balance.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
1,900 Employees
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale. Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

Why Work With Us

What sets Taboola apart? Our culture. We combine the massive data scale of a global ad-tech powerhouse with a culture anchored in empathy, non-linear growth, and trust-first flexibility. If you're looking to tackle complex AI challenges alongside brilliant, supportive peers—while being valued as a whole human being—your next chapter starts here.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Taboola offers flexibility and the ability to work remotely two days a week with three days in-office.

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